SourceForge isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel. If there’s an open-source tool out there that already works, it can now provide it easier to developers. That’s smart. The first three being announced are LimeSurvey (survey app), MediaWiki, and phpBB (forum app). These were chosen based on usage patterns across the site, and there is [...]

The video conversation service Seesmic, now better known for the popular Twitter client Twhirl it acquired in April, has secured $6 million in series B venture funding, bringing the total amount raised to $12 million.

The new funding round is led by two companies: the Omidyar Network, the venture form of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar; and [...]

Hulu has quickly become one of the leaders in online video. Providing professional content from major networks and movie studios, the site has welcomed millions across the U.S. who want to watch streams of their favorite shows or movies online.
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Am I alone in thinking that The Wonder Years was one of the best television shows [...]

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Finally, I can now do something about all those tacky speed-dating ads that show up on my Facebook profile. Blogger Rob Webb appears to have been the first to notice that the social network now allows members to rate the site’s ads with [...]

Enter Google Earth 4.3, due for release at about 8 p.m. Tuesday. It the Street View feature from Google Maps for a ground-level view of some areas, and a new navigation method makes the software more like a first-person video game, Google said in a statement.

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Part of the fun of Google Earth is flying [...]

Virtualization
After turning on Virtualization for the CPU in the BIOS, I installed the kvm and qemu packages. Using qemu-img, I created a virtual image for WinXP and installed XP using kvm. The performance is decent and I can now run Windows apps inside this VM in a pinch or use it to test our Web [...]

The Karaoke Channel Online, a service that lets people record themselves singing their favorite songs, says that it will now allow its users to publish their recordings across Facebook, MySpace, Delicious, and other social networks. To participate, users will need to pay $14.95 per month for unlimited access to the site’s 5,000 songs. A full-year [...]